Editor’s note: MVS Chandrashekhar is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of South Carolina. In this interview, he explains how smoke detectors work and why they sometimes sound an ...

A smoke detector plays a key role in protecting people and property. It gives early warnings before fire spreads and becomes harder to control. Many home fires start silently, especially during sleep ...

That's according to a UK survey commissioned by Electrical Safety First. And according to a BBC expert, shockingly, you are 11 times more likely to die if they don't work at the time of a fire. The ...